Il coraggio di ogni giorno [English translation]

I write my life

Traces on the stones

And I have the same eyes

of Scampia 1

I accept my pain

It is the price to pay

To shake your hands

Clasp my hands

I no

I have never felt

so alive

Do not ask me

Why so

So

So far and

Close to the world

To his courage

The courage of every day

This is my story

Years like stones

Running fast

In my quick blood

Dark and fertile land

Star always my star

Bride and sister, cover me

With clouds and quilts of dreams 2

I never

I have never felt

so alive

Do not ask me

Why so

So

So far and

Close to the world

To his courage

The courage of every day

3

Sing the praises of the sea and keep the earth

The light is day in the evening

Sing the praises of the sea and stay on the earth

The light is day in the evening

1. little town near Naples, it is famous because it is a 'camorra kingdom', where honest people suffer for the bullying and criminal actes of the gangland and the State is not very present 2. here Avitabile quotes Domenico Modugno 3. In Neapolitan in the original text

• Artist:Enzo Avitabile